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I hope time heals you and the love you gave to your purry friends is
returned. Peace and warmth to you. Carol onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote in message ... So sadly, this was very quick. I just want to thank everyone, kitties and people alike for all the purrs and warm thoughts. I can't face responding to each of you just now, but I need to thank you, and tell you all how comforting it is, even through a computer screen, to know that others out there understand. Lucy and I went to Dr. Bonnie around 11 this morning - I had to come home alone. After a little bit of a rally and a last purr after work yesterday, she began having a hard time breathing in the middle of the night, and had a couple of accidents, much to her upset. I was on-call for work so was up and could keep cuddling and talking to her between pager beeps. I carried her around on her fleecy bed, office to livingroom to bedroom and back, and to her litter when she might need it. The last big move she made on her own was to leave the office and struggle her way up onto the bed one last time to sleep beside Adam while I was finishing up work. This morning she just cuddled, but struggled to breath and wouldn't touch water or her cat-milk treat at all. Never, ever underestimate the value of a cat-fanatic vet who will sit and cuddle your cats with you as long as you need to. Unlike with Lenny, where we knew nothing for sure and had to leave him to surgery, we knew this was the time for Lucy to go and I could stay with her all the way - the one regret I had about leaving Lenny for surgery. This was very sad, but less traumatic than I had feared. Bonnie had a room all set up with a big plushy fleece blanket, and I brought Lucy in with her own afghan, too. Bonnie petted her and gave her a tiny needle full of sedative first. Lucy didn't flinch, bless her tough little heart, and she wobbled back across the blankey towards me and relaxed under my hands. She drifted off to sleep with her eyes open, which was slightly disconcerting but that way I knew the last thing she was looking at was me. Bonnie let me be alone with her for a bit while she got the second IV shot ready. Her breathing was easier than it had been in a long time. The second shot wasn't noticeable for her or for me, and she just slowed down until she stopped. I kept petting her and for some bizarre reason told Bonnie about when I first got the two of them. We both laughed at my story of my first week with Lenny and Lucy. A tiny apartment barely bigger than the exam room, and two Siamese freed from a shelter cage for the first time in 3.5 months - they ran full-speed end-to-end for a week, and I had to lock them in the bathroom so I could sleep, they were so happy. Bonnie says she's now going to smile at the image of 4 big blue eyes blinking up out of the bathtub where they curled up to sleep, rejecting my warm kitty-bed I had placed there and making me feel terribly guilty those first few days together. Fortunately for all of us they calmed down and began sleeping at night - and were rarely not on my bed for the next 11 + years. Lucy was always the gentler and more reserved of the pair, waiting her turn behind Lenny and later behind Panda and Sprout too, for her treats or her petting - but when you picked her up, she was a buttery plush toy in your hands, and never, ever wanted to be put down. All the other cats eventually had somewhere else to go, but Lucy would never try to leave a hug of her own volition - and if I tried to put her down, she'd cling like she was afraid of the floor until I got her completely disentangled - then follow me around, waiting to be picked up again. Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes |
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there is always a special one, soft
CM wrote in message om... (Carol) wrote in message . com... I hope time heals you and the love you gave to your purry friends is returned. Peace and warmth to you. Carol I'm new here and don't know anyone but I lost my first cat just over a year ago. She was about 17 or so (not sure exactly because I was told she was approx. 2 when I found her). Even with 10 others that I love dearly, I still miss my "first lady", Lucky. Peace be with you. |
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there is always a special one, soft
CM wrote in message om... (Carol) wrote in message . com... I hope time heals you and the love you gave to your purry friends is returned. Peace and warmth to you. Carol I'm new here and don't know anyone but I lost my first cat just over a year ago. She was about 17 or so (not sure exactly because I was told she was approx. 2 when I found her). Even with 10 others that I love dearly, I still miss my "first lady", Lucky. Peace be with you. |
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